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Track takes MIT by storm
By Middlebury Campus | February 18, 2010Last weekend the men’s and women’s track and field teams traveled to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to participate in the MIT Co-ed Indoor Invitational, the last meet of the regular season. In what proved to be a very impressive showing, the teams turned in dominating performances with ...
Losses keep women’s basketball from playoffs
By Middlebury Campus | February 18, 2010Following two losses this weekend, the Middlebury women’s basketball season has come to a close. The Panthers played Trinity away on Friday and suffered a tough loss of 65-46 to the Bantams. The women’s team had spent all week preparing and as a team felt ready for the competition. “It wasn’t ...
Men’s hockey turns up the heat in the season’s final stretch
By Middlebury Campus | February 18, 2010The Middlebury men’s hockey team moved closer to the playoffs with a two-win weekend over UMass-Boston and Babson College. The men have won their past four games, including a stellar victory over Williams, the previously top-ranked NESCAC squad. This victory catapulted the men into second place in ...
Women’s hockey faces two new teams and an old foe
By Middlebury Campus | February 18, 2010`Picking up four points on the road over the past week, the women’s hockey team looks to be shaping up nicely for post-season play. After earning a 1-1 tie with number one-ranked SUNY Plattsburgh last Wednesday, the Panthers demolished SUNY Potsdam on Friday in an 8-0 shutout. The SUNY schools faced ...
Ski teams face Big Green
By Middlebury Campus | February 18, 2010Here at Middlebury, students are used to a general atmosphere of athletic success. The Middlebury sports teams routinely compete for NESCAC championships and often see action in National playoffs as well. It has become something Panther fans expect out of their athletic teams. This week, Middlebury ...
Log rolling seeks to gain status as new club sport
By Middlebury Campus
| February 18, 2010
Abby Hoeschler ’10 has been log rolling since the age of four. Her mother is a seven-time world champion. Her oldest sister, Katie Hoeschler ’03.5, is the current world champion. Together with her sisters Katie and Elizabeth Hoeschler ’05, who started teaching log rolling on campus when they attended ...
Panthers cross 20-win mark on season for second straight year
By Middlebury Campus | February 18, 2010Seventh-ranked Middlebury men’s basketball continued its NESCAC rampage this past weekend at Trinity and Amherst with two double-digit victories to finish off regular season play against league rivals. The Panthers, 21-2 on the season, knocked off Trinity, at 10-12, on the road 71-57 last Friday ...
Carnival gears up for 87th year
By Middlebury Campus | February 18, 2010The thrills and excitement from Vancouver are coming to Middlebury College next weekend as the Olympic-themed Winter Carnival kicks off next Thursday, Feb. 25. The theme, “Go Gold,” seems even more fitting given that two Middlebury alums, Simeon Hamilton ’09 and Garrott Kuzzy ’06, are competing ...
Center of the Cirle 2/18/10
By Middlebury Campus | February 18, 2010On Dec. 29, 2009, the New York Times ran an article by Kate Zernike titled “Career U: Making College ‘Relevant.’” The article outlined the changes that liberal arts schools across the country are making, seeking to prepare graduates for careers and to eliminate seemingly “irrelevant” or ...
E.S. seminar poses carbon question
By Middlebury Campus | February 18, 2010Last Thursday, Feb. 11, the seven seniors of the environmental science 401 seminar (taken during this Winter Term) presented their research findings about the effectiveness of forests at sequestering carbon. The students’ message about the College, the environmental studies program and its relationship ...
Senior work plan raises controversy
By Middlebury Campus | February 17, 2010President of the College Ronald D. Liebowitz reaffirmed the College’s pledge for mandatory senior work despite the acknowledgement that departments would not have the 25 additional faculty positions envisioned to realize that goal, during his address on Feb. 12. The decision attracted both praise ...
The Reel Critic - 02/18/10
By Middlebury Campus | February 17, 2010“Broken Embraces,” by Spanish filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar, is a love story noir chronicling the life of a filmmaker and his close relationships to his work, his agent and her son, and an actress in his film. The film opens on Harry Caine, a blind writer that we later learn is the pseudonym for Mateo ...
Arts Brief: Middlebury College features American paintings and prints from Shelburne Museum
By Middlebury Campus | February 17, 2010The Middlebury College Museum of Art’s newest exhibition is a collection of American Paintings and Prints from the Shelburne Museum in Shelburne, Vt. The exhibition will run until June 6 and features a selection of 28 pieces from the Shelburne Museum’s collection of over 150 paintings and prints. The ...
Op-Ed: Calendar Wars
By Middlebury Campus | February 17, 2010My wife and I are writers and though I have enjoyed what some might term more professional success (my work has appeared in a number of prestigious publications with sophisticated readership including, in autumn 2006, a letter to the editor of the New York Review of Books), Suzy is a talented woman ...
Liebowitz unveils bold financial model
By Middlebury Campus | February 17, 2010In a heavily attended speech in Mead Chapel on Feb. 12, President of the College Ronald D. Liebowitz unveiled a bold new financial model that would rely more heavily on alternative funding sources like the summer Language Schools and the Monterey Institute for International Studies (MIIS) to support ...